Uasin Gishu Kikuyu community spokesman Samuel Kamunu Wa Kabari addressing the press in Eldoret town on Tuesday, January 23, 2017 [Photo/Elvanis Ronoh]Uasin Gishu Kikuyu community spokesman Samuel Kamunu Wa Kabari has warned local leaders against politicizing the eviction hawkers from Eldoret town CBD.
He said the exercise is being done in good faith and it's only meant to clean Eldoret town." I want to refute claims that Uasin Gishu government is targeting the Kikuyu community in their exercise of removing hawkers in the Eldoret CBD since we have hawkers from all tribes and nobody has been spared. Wreckless speaking should be avoided at all costs since it might plunge the county into tribal war," he said in Eldoret town, Tuesday."We support fully what governor Jackson Mandago is doing but we only take issue with the manner in which the county askaris are handling hawkers. Let them have respect and handle them in a humane manner," he added. Wa Kabari, however, called for dialogue between the county government and the hawkers to end the confrontations between hawkers and enforcement officers which has become common in Eldoret town of late. "It's only through dialogue that this mess will be solved and not name calling. I, therefore, call upon governor Mandago to sit down with hawkers and find a permanent solution to this problem before things get out of hand," noted Kabari.